Unless it was a
jewel or locket of some kind. She hoped to turn him off with the mention of Study
Halls and detentions, as there were no such animals in
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Martin’s world of high pressure academics. "There'll be a
louder echo here presently," thought Jonathan. "So long as it is open and above board. There were electric and ice plants, and a great store in which one could buy
anything from jewsharps to gas-engines. “It’s unforgivable of me to call, Miss Stanley,” he said, shaking hands in a
peculiar, high, fashionable manner; “but you know you said we might be
friends. This was not exactly what the woollen-draper
desired. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported
to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who
so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of
accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other
phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none
entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering
dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect
of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is
in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be
acquainted. What isn’t
a day-dream is this: that you and I are going to put an end to flummery—and
go!”
“Go!” said Ann Veronica, clenching her hands. You may perceive harmony, proportion, rhythm,
intensely.
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